Can si timpurile gramaticale

Verbele can si be able to sunt sinonime

Aceasta sinonimie este foarte importanta pentru ca verbul can nu se poate folosi la toate timpurile, de exemplu nu la present perfect si nici la alt timp perfect...

De ce?

Pentru ca verbul can nu are forma de participu, este un verb modal cu numai doua forme.
Can se foloseste la present simple cu forma can la toate persoanele si la past simple cu forma could.

 

 

Daca avem nevoie de past participle, apelam la sinonimul lui can, be able to (a fi capabil sa).

Iata, verbul can se foloseste pentru a spune ca cineva este capabil sa faca ceva.(The verb can is used to express the fact that someone is able to do something).

(Can is a modal verb. It doesn’t have all of the tenses. It has the simple present, the past tense could, but no past participle. When we need the a past participle, we use instead the expression be able to.)

Here are some EXAMPLES:

Can you speak German?
Yes,.I can.

I had no idea you could translate what they said.
Dar:
Since when have you been able to speak German?

Forma de negativ a lui can este cannot, scris legat, a lui could este could not scris in doua cuvinte separate.

(The negative forms of can and could are cannot and could not. In spoken: can’t and couldn’t.

Here are some examples;
You can’t ran with those bags.
They couldn’t understand anything. The room was too noisy.
He hasn't been able to finish that book yet.